Tiffany Haddish Secures Role in Tyler Perry’s The List

Just in case you have not had enough Tiffany Haddish (when will we ever?), you’ll see the hilarious star next in Tyler Perry’s latest flick, The List, where she’ll star alongside Tika Sumpter and Omari Hardwick.

According to Deadline, Perry wrote and is, of course, directing and producing the film, which is in the works at Paramount Players and already has a release date set for Nov. 2.

The plot? According to the plot synopsis, “When her wild sister [Haddish] gets released from prison and re-enters her life, Danica [Sumpter] is forced to accept that she may be getting catfished by an online boyfriend whom she has never met in person.”

Haddish has seriously delighted the crowd in the past year, most recently at the Oscars Sunday night, when she and fellow comedian-actress Maya Rudolph cracked the audience up.

This past November, Haddish also became the first black female stand-up comic to host Saturday Night Live, a role she completely demolished, again, winning over the crowd.

And who could truly forget her performance in Girls Trip, which secured a Critics’ Choice nomination this year?

Haddish is really on a roll, and probably won’t be slowing down anytime soon. She is also due to star alongside Tracy Morgan in the TBS sitcom The Last OG, and will also pair up with Kevin Hart for Night School.

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Can we give our girl Tiffany a movie with an actually talented writer and director? I mean, good for Tiff. But in this post-Wakanda, post-Oscar Winner Jordan Peele world...Tyler Perry ain’t good enough, fam.

Convo I literally just had with my fiancee and my mother-in-law. Them: Why don’t you like Tyler Perry? Me: Because he’s not creative and he’s never gotten better and all his movies are the same. Them: I don’t know, I like his movies... Me: Every Tyler Perry movie has some woman getting abused by her dark skin husband until she goes to see Madea and finds herself, usually in the form of a light-skinned man. There’s always some Bible quotes tossed in, but no one really cares about Jesus. The villians are always irredeemable and one note, and happiness is always found with a man. Even the one time the villian was a light-skinned black dude, they had Taraji fall for a lighter skinned Hispanic dude. And in Temptation, he had a female character get sexually assaulted, like it, become a drug addict, and then get doomed to having HIV. Them:

Just because her name is on people’s tongues, it doesn’t mean that Tiffany is going to land roles automatically. Or, she’s going to get paid a lot. She is still in that “get money and hustle” stage. She’s building up that resume. She is working in a business that pays Viola Davis, Angela Bassett and many other black actresses crumbs, if you were to compare salaries with her white counterparts.

Yeah, I think she’s striking while the iron is hot. I adore her* but I don’t think she’s yet in a position where she can turn down work. I think Tyler Perry movies are trash and I don’t watch them, but a lot of people do. It’s good exposure. *I love that she wore that same McQueen dress to the Oscars, like she said on SNL she would do. She’s worn it at least three times! True to her word.

I came here to say the same thing. Hollywood doesn’t even pay the legendary Black actresses much. When the highest paid actress list comes out every year you don’t see an Octavia Spencer or Viola Davis. One reason is that Black actresses are largely kept out of big tentpole movies, something “Black Panther” just changed. We’ll see if Lupita or Danai can get cast beyond historical and African roles outside of BP. Why can’t we see Black women as spies, apocalypse survivors, or romantic leads in major studio movies? Black actresses are running tv right now and they’re not even the highest paid in that medium. When the studios think of diversity their first thought is usually a White woman, or if it must be a Black person then choose a Black man. I’m never excited about a new Tyler Perry movie, but he’s one of the only people in Hollywood consistently hiring Black women for movies. I want Tiffany Haddish to play more than just the sassy, ratched Black woman too. Even more so, I want there to be more scripts for her to read. Hollywood won’t change until more Black people are involved in the behind the scene stages of movie making. We need more writers, directors, casting agents, etcetcetc.

He got Taraji back and now Tiffany.... I don’t get it. Both of them are on levels where I would think doing a Tyler Perry movie would be a set back. Has his writing improved.? Shooting in ATL will he FINALLY hire someone to properly do hair on the set? I don’t understand. But I will probably go see... Because them.... SMH

Simply put: For Taraji, its a sign of gratitude towards him. She was in a TP film, years before she was well-known as Cookie Lyon. Even though she was nominated in “supporting actress” roles forbeing Benjamin Button’s mama, she was offered lucrative roles.